KEYWORDS: darwinsblackbox; evolution; helixmakemineadouble; intelligentdesign; michaelbehe; paleontology
Posted on 05/17/2022 7:53:39 AM PDT by Kaslin
A growing number of scientists seem finally ready to at least include intelligent design within the ‘range of views’ allowed to be heard.
At first glance, the Potential and Limitations of Evolutionary Processes conference in Israel last week, which I attended, looked like any other scientific meeting on evolution, with talks by highly-credentialed scientists from institutions such as the Technical University of Munich, Cambridge, and the Weizmann Institute. But a closer look at the list of speakers shows that this one was different; it gave a platform to numerous notable proponents of intelligent design.
The conference included chemistry Nobel prize winners Ada Yonath and Sir John Walker, and numerous well-known evolutionary theorists such as University of Chicago molecular biologist James Shapiro and Georgia Tech biophysicist Jeremy England. But this time four or five intelligent design scientists were also invited, including Michael Behe of Lehigh University.
Most, but not all, avoided mentioning design explicitly, but still emphasized the “limitations” of evolutionary processes. Even Rice University chemist James Tour (who considers himself “agnostic” toward intelligent design) argued that origin-of-life researchers have deceived the public into believing that we are close to understanding how life formed, when we are not.
As stated on the conference web page, “the main goal of this unique interdisciplinary, international conference is to bring together scientists and scholars who hold a range of views on the potential and possible limitations of chemical and biological processes in evolution.” The organizers attempted, to a large degree successfully, to create an atmosphere of mutual respect between those who emphasized the “potential” of evolutionary processes, and those who emphasized their “limitations.”
Until recently, intelligent design has been considered an untouchable topic in mainstream scientific circles, where it’s considered axiomatic that everything must be explainable in terms of the unintelligent forces of nature, no matter how implausible and incomplete our current explanations may be. This axiom has worked well in other areas of science, but the problems of explaining the origin and evolution of life without design are inherently much more difficult than other scientific problems (for reasons which are obvious and outlined in my video, “Why Evolution is Different“).
For this reason, a growing number of scientists seem finally ready to at least include intelligent design within the “range of views” allowed to be heard. The meeting in Israel represented an important step in this direction and shows that mainstream science can ignore the obvious for a long time, but not forever.
If you need further evidence that intelligent design is finally being taken more seriously, look at the long list of distinguished scientists endorsing Stephen Meyer’s 2021 book “Return of the God Hypothesis.” Physics Nobel prize winner Brian Josephson said the book “makes it clear that far from being an unscientific claim, intelligent design is valid science.” Another endorser is Brazilian chemist Marcos Eberlin, whose own book “Foresight: How the Chemistry of Life Reveals Planning and Purpose,” which promotes intelligent design, carries the endorsements of three Nobel prize winners.
Of course, you shouldn’t judge a scientific theory by the number of distinguished scientists or Nobel laureates who support it, and certainly scientists who advocate intelligent design are still only a growing minority. But you should judge a scientific theory by its merits, and you don’t have to be a distinguished scientist to understand the merits of intelligent design. In fact, many already do.
Why is it that only the ANIMAL kingdom is getting looked at?
If 'scientists' want to start with GOO, then just where do exoskeletons and endoskeletons part ways?
What about them insects?
Just where do they fit in??
Any mechanical production line can produce lemons.
Any biological production line can produce idiots, I mean LIBERALS!
Did he have a penis before Eve was created?
Well stated!
Or ever seen it work (all by itself)
Show your work.
A million monkies at a million typewriters: Free Republic
Time is Nature’s way of making sure that everything does not happen at once.
Beats questions about foreskins I guess.
Not really; GOD stretched out his index finger and said “I THINK I WILL START RIGHT HERE”.
FLASH
And that’s how it all started.
Or a MORMON.
If You Could Hie to Kolob, 284 – William W. Phelps
1. If you could hie to Kolob In the twinkling of an eye,
And then continue onward With that same speed to fly,
Do you think that you could ever, Through all eternity,
Find out the generation Where Gods began to be?
2. Or see the grand beginning, Where space did not extend?
Or view the last creation, Where Gods and matter end?
Me thinks the Spirit whispers, “No man has found ‘pure space,’
Nor seen the outside curtains, Where nothing has a place.”
3. The works of God continue, And worlds and lives abound;
Improvement and progression Have one eternal round.
There is no end to matter; There is no end to space;
There is no end to spirit; There is no end to race.
4. There is no end to virtue; There is no end to might;
There is no end to wisdom; There is no end to light.
There is no end to union; There is no end to youth;
There is no end to priesthood; There is no end to truth.
5. There is no end to glory; There is no end to love;
There is no end to being; There is no death above.
There is no end to glory; There is no end to love;
There is no end to being; There is no death above.
INDEED!
In my life, I have found there are 10 different types of people in the world, those who understand binary numbers, and those who do not.
Letterman capitalized on them: Stupid People Tricks.
I am amazed that some folks think we can detect dimensions 5 and above.
“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”
― Arthur C. Clarke
Yeah. I have less of it remaining.
Makes sense. Evidence for intelligent design is ubiquitous as long as there is an intelligent observer.
***Intelligent observers who are stone or even iron age look up into the sky and say, “wow, there must be Beings greater than us”.
Intelligent observers in the 21st century look up into the sky and say, “ wow, it is too organized for there not to be an intelligent Being in charge.”
The intelligence level has changed.
Our interactions with that Intelligent Being are part of the equation.
I do not understand that level of hubris.
KEYWORDS: darwinsblackbox; evolution; helixmakemineadouble; intelligentdesign; michaelbehe; paleontology
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